I’m calling it. Juicin’ is my beer of the summer. New England IPAs have been spreading like wildfire across North American craft breweries. This is one fire that I do not want to be put out. Using hops selected for their juiciness, New England IPAs are hazy and...

Sours are tough. They can be great and they can also be really terrible. Funk can be an extreme spectrum. Half Hours on Earth is a small operation in Seaforth, Ontario, focusing on sours and farmhouse ales. With a focus like this, it might be expected that they...

Full disclosure: I love Nickel Brook Brewing Co. As self-professed (and undisputedly so) leaders in the Ontario Craft Beer scene since 2005, they know their hops. Their ales have kept me coming back, and their recent focus on developing new and complex funky creations...

In the last couple of years, the province of Ontario in Canada opened up online beer sales, where residents could either buy from the government-run LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario), or directly from the craft brewers who offered the service. While this might...

As a kid growing up in Ontario in the late-80s and early-90s, I didn’t really have much choice but to be a Toronto Maple Leafs fan. With an exciting team that centred around Power Forward Doug Gilmour, it was an easy team to love. “Killer” was a fan favourite, an...

I was recently placed on a beer embargo by my loving wife, who recognized that our fridge had become 50% craft beers and quite reasonably wanted me to enjoy some of what I had before I made any new acquisitions. Well, I tried. Not for long, but I tried. Knowing that...